Perhaps there are alternatives to being a 925-wage-slave, a hamster on a wheel going nowhere, or just another rat race droid mingling with the other 925-wage-slaves at the water cooler, convinced that you have no choices.

Are you a lot like Charlie Meeker?

Typical as typical could be for a Friday morning. Charlie Meeker stands with his head bowed below the shower head in disgust of his life.

The morning showers are getting longer and longer, but the relief felt from the hot water pounding the nape of his neck has become less effective. Quick ten minute showers have turned into thirty minute mini-vacations from the life he dreads.

The struggle to find refuge in a marble cubicle of soaps, moisturizers, and warmth, had lost their jump-start ability. Why does Charlie spend so much time in the shower, as if it’s a hermetically sealed capsule of tranquility, apart from the world he once loved?

Although Charlie’s day has barely begun, anxiety weighs in like a Sumo wrestler pumped up on steroids, focused on taking him down. Jumping out of bed in the mornings with great anticipation had turned into haunting trepidation.

Anxiety is King and Charlie has become nothing more than a loyal subservient subject. Could anxiety be only a bad influence? Perhaps, sometimes, anxiety serves as a helper to realign our desires in life and push us toward success.

However, in Charlie’s case, Anxiety is on the hunt like a carnivore in search of fresh prey. Surrender to the jaws of hunger or switch to survival mode and fend off the attack, appear to be the only choices for Charlie on this typical Friday morning.

The shower has ended and the real world has taken over. The all important clock is the new master of the universe. Scheduled on this Friday morning is a meeting with the Boss, not just Charlie’s immediate Boss, but the Big Boss too.

Fighting to shove Anxiety into a corner in order to focus on the meeting is useless. Anxiety has a strong backbone and an even stronger determination. After all, Charlie subconsciously invited Anxiety to come along. Knowing that traffic will be hectic, Charlie grabs a doughnut from the kitchen counter, his travel coffee cup filled with a fresh brew from the hands of his wife, and passes kisses around to his children and spouse as he heads out the door.

Once behind the wheel of his high-mileage, almost everything works on it, four-door, quite can’t identify the scent, in need of a car wash and scheduled service suburban soccer dad mode of transportation, Charlie and Anxiety crawl along in traffic to the office, while listening to the misfortune of others from the local news radio station. Charlie zones off to the previous evening and replays the events over and over.

Guilt takes the front seat away from Anxiety and recalls the previous night, mentioning the six pack of beer and bag of potato chips consumed while watching the big game on television, instead of assembling a game plan for today’s business calls and formulating a strategy for next week’s annual industry presentation.

Ignoring the request of his daughter for homework help after dinner also leaves him feeling remorseful. Out of his traffic stupor and glancing at the time, he accelerates with an occasional horn honk to let the world know that he’s important; has places to go; things to do, and the clock dictates a shortage of time.

Anxiety and Guilt, acting like a tag team, bombard Charlie with memories of poor decision making and procrastination. Charlie slurps more coffee, wishes for another doughnut, while being unaware that he is coaxing his body to raise his blood pressure a few notches as he tries to answer the question; what’s this meeting all about?

Justifying no need for preparation, because he’s a professional and has been a salesman with the company for over twelve years, and is use to doing things on the fly. Charlie only imagines a much needed pay raise and/or promotion as the purpose of this morning’s meeting.

Hitting the doors of the office, just a couple of minutes late, Charlie moves through the aisles with a brisk stride. Following a quick drop off at his desk of his coffee cup, briefcase, and morning sports page, he makes a beeline to the restroom for some last minute grooming.

In front of the mirror, trying to be defiant of Anxiety, Charlie recites a pep talk in little more than a whisper to help strengthen his mind for the momentary meeting.

Ten; on a scale of one-to-ten, I’m a ten. Neun; a German word that means no, that doesn’t exist in my vocabulary, Ate; get out there and earn your bread and butter. Seven; you make your own luck.

Sex; hopefully, I’ll get some tonight, Five; meet them halfway, be willing to compromise. Four; like the game of golf, play by the rules, be a good sport. Three; the more sales the merrier.

Two; deal with them on a one-to-one. And one; I am number one.

Armed with a smile and an instant shot of positive attitude, Charlie enters the meeting room. Almost like a hawk swooping down on its chosen target, Charlie’s Boss ambushes him by pointing to his watch and declaring he’s late.

Chiming in, the Big Boss, displaying a cold demeanor and an unfavorable raised eyebrow says in no uncertain terms that Charlie has fallen from being a great company asset to the equivalent of a sack of potatoes.

Adding, that the company isn’t in the business of selling potatoes and low sales figures for Charlie over the past year don’t lie. Forget the thoughts of pay raise and promotion, Charlie realizes it is duck hunting season and he’s the duck.

After a laundry list of offenses being read off to him, Charlie is dismissed to lick his wounds and think it over. With his head bowed, just like it was an hour or so earlier in the shower, Charlie walks to the rooftop to regain his composure and decide what his best course of action should be with his faithful companion Anxiety at his side.

Feeling like the wind was just knocked out of him in a heavy weight bout, Charlie draws on a cigarette and looks out on the smog of the city for some sort of answer to his debacle.

Anxiety tried to warn Charlie with sleepless nights and long showers that something wasn’t right. Guilt tried to have Charlie reassess his priorities in life. Both were unsuccessful at their task.

Now, it was up to Charlie to make things right, to straighten his crooked path, to turn over a new leaf, to stop kissing butt, to tell them he’s better than this company, to tell his bosses to shove it where the sun don’t shine.

Charlie, in just seconds, rationalized that he just didn’t need this job. He didn’t need to be taking orders from these mental midgets, these captains who never played the game, who never battled for a sale in the trenches, who just happened to be graduates from Ivy League schools and put in charge because of a piece of sheepskin.

Fed up with their crap, Charlie didn’t need to tow the line for these knuckleheads; Charlie was a superior salesman, destined to be great and rich.

He rationalized that there are plenty of companies out there that would welcome him with open arms and pay him plenty more than he was making with this group of greedy jerks.

Dropping his cigarette and crushing its existence into the roof’s tarmac with a renewed vigor, Charlie returned to his desk in his office and started packing, while others in the office, obviously informed as to what transpired in the last few minutes, looked on.

Suddenly, Charlie froze in his tracks. The adrenaline in his body which had made its presence known just moments before had...

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